War and Peace
By Leo Tolstoy; Constance Garnett (Translator); A.N. Wilson (Introduction by)
(Modern Library, Mass Market Paperback, 9780345472403, 1424pp.)
Publication Date: August 31, 2004
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (February 2009), Paperback (December 2, 2008), Hardcover (October 16, 2007), Mass Market Paperback (June 2007), Paperback (December 2006), Hardcover (February 2006), Paperback (July 9, 2002), Paperback (January 1996), Paperback (July 1982), Mass Market Paperback (August 1968)
Categories: Classics
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Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of fully realized and equally memorable characters that populate this massive chronicle. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad: “To read him . . . is to find one’s way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane.”
A. N. Wilson is an award-winning novelist, biographer, and journalist, and the author of God’s Funeral and the biographies C. S. Lewis, Paul, and Jesus. He lives in London.
“There remains the greatest of all novelists—for what else can we call the author of War and Peace?”
—Virginia Woolf
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